Sunday Editorial Surveying education in Bihar: forget schools, visit the coaching classes! By Ratnakar Tripathy If you really want to check on the state of education in Bihar rather than limit yourself to ‘official’ education, it is best to turn yourself invisible and attend classes at a few coaching institutes. These are the sites, the labs where the real Bihari of the future is being sculpted. In case you are too old to pass off as invisible, the next best thing is to talk to those who are attending these classes on a daily basis and are willing to talk about the normal state of affairs,... 

Now expansion plans for Anand Kumar’s ‘Super 30’: is it necessarily a good idea? Kanpur: according to the latest reports, Bihar’s ‘Super 30′ Institute, which has been providing poor students with free and intensive tutoring for admission in the Indian Institutes of Technology is planning some serious expansion. Anand Kumar the ‘Super 30’ wizard told reporters in Kanpur that the Institute will admit 60 students this year onwards. Kumar said ‘Apart from Bihar, we will admit meritorious students from states like Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh also’. And further...